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Cyberattack from the Pakistani government?
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:28:16 -0500
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9877614-7.html?tag=nefd.top February 24, 2008 12:17 PM PST YouTube blames Pakistan network for 2-hour outage Posted by Greg <http://www.news.com/8300-10784_3-7.html?authorId=116&tag=author> Sandoval http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080224/youtube.jpg Updated, 9:40 p.m. to add YouTube's explanation of what caused outage. YouTube suffered a two-hour long, system-wide outage on Sunday that the company said was triggered by a network based in Pakistan. "For about two hours, traffic to YouTube was routed according to erroneous Internet Protocols," said YouTube spokesperson Ricardo Reyes in a statement "Many users around the world could not access our site. We have determined that the source of these events was a network in Pakistan. We are investigating and working with others in the Internet community to prevent this from happening again." The BBC reported <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7262071.stm> that Pakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube may have inadvertently caused the outage. Earlier in the day, Pakistan's shutoff access to YouTube inside the country in response to the posting of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, which have outraged many Muslims. .
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- Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Richard M. Smith (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Ahmad Elkhatib (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Richard M. Smith (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? FS (Feb 25)
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- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Richard M. Smith (Feb 25)
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- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Richard M. Smith (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Ahmad Elkhatib (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Paul Ferguson (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Nick FitzGerald (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Drsolly (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Nick FitzGerald (Feb 25)